​One last year in the sun for UK-US ‘special relationship’?

Beginning his working life in the aviation industry and trained by the BBC, Tony Gosling is a British land rights activist, historian & investigative radio journalist.
Over the last 20 years he has been exposing the secret power of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and élite Bilderberg Conferences where the dark forces of corporations, media, banks and royalty conspire to accumulate wealth and power through extortion and war.
Tony has spent much of his life too advocating solutions which heal the wealth divide, such as free housing for all and a press which reflects the concerns of ordinary people rather than attempting to lead opinion, sensationalise or dumb-down.
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When a friendly NATO government is besieged by mass street protests these days, they are referred to in the mainstream press as a “government” and people on the streets are “rioters.”

When resisting Washington, the government becomes a
“regime” and the people “protesters.”

Rolling by our eyes and ears every day, busy consumers are not
supposed to notice this coarse propaganda – but of course, we do.

Whether a government has been democratically elected or not gets
curiously forgotten in cases where that fact obstructs the case
for “regime change.” Britain and America’s interests are
considered to be one and the “special relationship”
between the countries, which supposedly springs from the US aid
for Britain in WWII, as unassailable.

But, 70 years on, as Washington and the Pentagon press Britain to
ever more humiliating and one-sided feats of amoral servitude,
there are rumblings of discontent amongst both the ruling classes
and the peasantry of the long-suffering Brits.

For many the present era of UK-US tension began on May 14, 1948,
when the US became the first and only government to recognize
David Ben-Gurion's self-declared State of Israel. Governing
Palestine under the 1922 League of Nations Mandate, British
forces were pulling out in May 1948 but had been cut down almost
daily by newly arrived Jewish Irgun“freedom fighters.”

When two terrorists were caught, tried and hanged as an example,
the Irgun kidnapped two British army sergeants at random, and
executed them at dawn, booby-trapping the bodies. Eyebrows were
raised in London as the US stood alone to back from afar with
seemingly limitless supplies of cash a fundamentalist terror
group that had spent much of the previous 17 years massacring the
forces of British law and order.

Despite the ridicule, much of it justified, of postwar Europeans,
Britain and the US shared a language, world wars and colonial
heritage that made it difficult to fall out. However, the postwar
planners of the US Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the War
and Peace Studies group, would leave nothing to chance.

During 1943 they planned a secret political lobby group, which
meets to this day, to weld post-war elites of Europe and North
America together using banking, oil and royal families as the
cement. The group was funded initially by the newly formed CIA
and had its inaugural meeting in 1954 at the exact site, on the
outskirts of Arnhem, of one of the bloodiest slaughters of
British soldiers in WWII just 10 years before, at the Bilderberg
hotel in Oosterbeek, Holland.

Billions of dollars to woo and 'do' the British

Perhaps Britain should feel flattered that the US chooses to
spend so many millions of their hard-earned tax dollars courting
British favor? The Italians now know of the millions the CIA
spent in the 1960s and 1970s to stop them electing Communist
governments. Yes, there are assassinations, but the overall
mission is to let the idea that America is “nice” and
even “cool” exude from every aspect of the arts,
deliberately gently elbowing out local culture and homegrown
creativity.

The US offensive, which has now all but wiped out British cinema,
began in the 1960s. Michael Wakelin describes how US money bought
influence in British cinema chains in his 1996 book about the
Methodist mogul behind much of 20th Century British cinema – “J. Arthur Rank: The Man Behind
the Gong.” That influence grew and Wakelin tells the tragic
story of how these US-controlled chains gradually refused to show
the British-made films Rank was producing, cutting off his
revenue and gradually shutting him down. These nominally British
cinemas were eventually showing exclusively Hollywood films. By
the 1980s, British film studios at Pinewood and Shepperton were
producing a declining number of almost exclusively US-funded and
written films, albeit with English film crews and actors, and the
British film industry was virtually dead.

US interference in UK culture reached such an extent in 1960 that
a full-length feature film, starring Britain's most famous comedy
actor of the day, Norman Wisdom, was unceremoniously
“wiped.” The “offending” film, titled
“There Was A Crooked Man,” featured Wisdom masquerading
as an arrogant US general requisitioning British land for the US
Air Force. The subject of US forces on British soil was deemed
too sensitive even for comic treatment, and this classic film
from the comic's golden years remains “missing, believed
wiped” to this day.

The source of funding for these colossal cinema network takeovers
may even have been, though few would have suspected at the time,
the post WWII Bormann network. Former CBS News correspondent on
the WWII Western front, Paul Manning, describes the genesis of
the Bormann financiers in his 1980 book“Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile” who
were fuelled by millions of dollars of Nazi loot, laundered by
CIA chief Alan Dulles’ New York law firm Sullivan and Cromwell.

Cultural NATO: CIA and Rothschild-funded

We now know that “Encounter” magazine, which was in the
vanguard of the arts world every month from 1953-91, was a
transatlantic intelligence operation aimed at European opinion
formers and the wealthy, designed to ferment the EU project while
gluing Europe and US together culturally. The banking and
intelligence funding was uncovered at the turn of the century
when US writer Frances Stonor Saunders published “The
Cultural Cold War” in 1999.

Saunders details the millions the CIA spent mesmerizing Europe
with US arts ephemera, and how questions about Suez, Vietnam and
other transatlantic power elite adventures were airbrushed away.
An undeclared propaganda war was waged on Europeans through music
and mainstream media while wave after new wave of innocuous US
artists’ tours of Europe were funded and promoted to boot. The
1960s satirical TV comedy, “That Was The Week That Was”
didn't last long after lampooning "Cultural NATO." The
BBC pulled the show.

British intelligence baron Victor Rothschild helped fund
“Encounter” through Secker and Warburg publishers,
ensuring the regular arrival of cheques in brown envelopes
payable to the “British Society for Cultural Freedom” in
whose offices the editorial staff of “Encounter” were
lodged. Even the Fabian Society’s journal “Venture” and
a predecessor to the world-renowned “Index on
Censorship” were funded through the same banking and
intelligence circles.

The loud American

These days, at the expense of homemade music, US songs come
pumping out of the BBC and commercial radio stations all over the
UK. US economists and commentators inexplicably turn up, like bad
pennies, on domestic UK political discussion programs. US drama
dominates UK digital TV too, where many of the 80 or so channels
have nothing to do with Britain. The multi-channel model,
thoroughly dumbed-down with nothing on night after night too is
copied straight from the US of A.

Whilst much of this US intrusion into UK political debate and the
arts is due to chumminess between UK media managers and their
counterparts on the other side of the Atlantic, there are also
more formal, big business, banking and intelligence-funded links,
aimed at gluing personal relationships of the media people to
business interests. The British American Project for the
Successor Generation (BAP) is largely for the on-air and
coal-face production personalities, while July's annual Sun
Valley Conference is only for the biggest media barons and
financiers.

Such is the power elite's success in instilling
“groupthink” that when an international situation
develops which requires more detailed commentary than
broadcasters can supply in-house, producers call the CFR's London
station, the Royal Institute for International Affairs (RIIA) or
Chatham House, without a second thought. This industry- and
BBC-funded “think tank” is anything but impartial,
parroting studiously the Pentagon, NATO and Bilderberg line. It
is introduced to unwary listeners as an unbiased “expert
opinion.”

Recovering sovereignty

It is the revelations of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden as well
as the running sore of US robot drone assassinations in Yemen,
Pakistan and elsewhere that has prompted a cross-party defence
group of House of Lords peers to table amendments to this month's
Defence Reform Bill. Fifteen or so US military-controlled bases
in Britain, functioning by the 1951 Status of Forces Agreement,
represent an affront to British sovereignty. If passed, the new
law will address this issue by installing a local “scrutiny
group” at each base.

Drawn from the British population near the US base, these groups
will include technical and legal experts with the access to
satisfy themselves of the compliance with UK law of all
activities inside. Ruling Coalition peer LibDem Baroness Miller,
put it bluntly: “The government cannot claim that the
American bases in the UK are accountable to anyone but the
Pentagon under current legislation. It is time we made what
happens to UK citizens on UK soil the responsibility of the UK
government.”

However, British justice remains a victim of Tony Blair's 2003
UK-US Extradition Treaty. British citizens Paul and Sandra Dunham
used to live in the US, where Paul Dunham managed a Maryland firm
called Pace, manufacturing soldering irons. But as sometimes
happens when a new owner takes over, personalities clashed and
Paul returned to Britain. Pace’s new US boss accused them of
misusing company credit cards and sued for hundreds of thousands
of dollars.

Back in Northumberland, the Dunhams have lost everything,
including their home, as they have had their assets seized
defending themselves against extradition. They are happy to
refute the claim against them in court but if the extradition
goes ahead, under the 2003 UK-US Extradition Treaty, the now
penniless couple face 18 months in jail before their case is even
heard.

This brave couple could be the first people extradited to the US
under post-9/11 “terrorism legislation.” They face a
combined jail term of more than 600 years and all without a shred
of evidence being presented by their accuser. When High Court
Judge Mr Justice Simon turned down their case against extradition
this week, Paul Dunham said: “It’s a monumentally sad day for
Sandra and me, and for those who follow us on this conveyor-belt
to the US.”

Just like the European Arrest Warrant, which also fails to
require any evidence to be presented, or the individual even to
be charged in the distant country, the civil liberties in the
West are not being eroded by wicked Sharia law-wielding
Islamists, but by spineless civil servants and the shadowy power
elite bureaucrats of London, Brussels and Washington.

The shelf-life of the lies

Twelve years on, the global unending war agenda of the 9/11
attacks is struggling for its 21st century credibility.
Pro-Islamist and anti-Islamist policies collide head on. Media
PsyOps stumble over each other from a power elite increasingly
alienated in Israel and the United States of Europe and America.

The media holds its head high, discussing domestic affairs on the
basis of working democracies in which people have a say. But in
the real world a power elite of bankers and energy brokers, along
with the Pentagon, make all the big decisions in their own
interests. The real kings of the Western world stay off the media
radar, hoping the political pantomime they bankroll will keep
public attention and the law off their backs and give them
another year in the sun.

As the wartime head of the German section of the US Psychological
Warfare Executive, Richard Crossman, put it: “The way to
carry out good propaganda is never to appear to be carrying it
out at all.”

The trouble for Crossman’s 2014 descendants is they’ve grown
punch-drunk on one too many “shoot-’em-up-for-real”
video games. What’s worse is the US in Britain been caught lying
to, and spying on, their hosts and dinner party guests. To put it
politely, as we British always aim to do, they’ve outstayed their
welcome.

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